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...Ruby Keeler is the general's daughter who, when her father has been assigned to the Point as Superintendent, watches Powell, wearing a shako and a beatific grin, graduate four years later. Between times, Flirtation Walk investigates such West Point traditions as plebe hazing, commencement exercises and the Kissing Rock under which Miss Keeler fails to entice Powell. A One Hundredth Night Show gives the stars a chance to sing songs called "Flirtation Walk," "No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache," "Mister and Missus Is the Name...
Baiata and his cronies were on the point of sealing the deal with the Indianapolis bank?the signal for the looting to start?when they were rounded up and Lincoln Life remained unravished. Last week it was quietly sold to rock-sound Illinois Bankers Life Assurance...
...their trouble-shooter the banks drafted a bright young Arkansas banker named Samuel Wallace Reyburn.* Out of the reorganization of both the chain and the store came a rock-sound Lord & Taylor and Associated Dry Goods Corp., on whose board ever since has sat at least one Morgan partner...
...sold eight boxes of strawberries to the late great John L. Sullivan. When he wanted to learn law, young Reyburn persuaded the University of Arkansas to hold its lectures at night. At 27 he took hold of a small private banking & real estate firm, expanding it into Little Rock's big Union Trust Co. Few years ago Mr. Reyburn resigned from Lord & Taylor's presidency to devote more time to his job as head of the parent company, $40,000,000 Associated Dry Goods...
...quite well when undisturbed, but when piles are driven into it the whole mass suddenly liquefies and the piles sink. Quicksand is thus merely the upward flow of water through sand. Dry sand acts even more strangely; when all the air is pumped out, it becomes as hard as rock. This fact explains why foundations set on deep piles are usually safe...